[ale] Bellsouth and SMTP

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

David Corbin wrote:
> I know that Bellsouth prohibits incoming connections on port 25 for their 
> basic DSL package.  Does anyone know if that is also the case for people with 
> static IPs?
> 

	The answer to that question would be yes it is the case for static IP
accounts as well. I've got Crapsouth DSL at home as well with a static
IP and they block port 25 inbound as well as outbound for any mail
server but theirs. What I did was get a Xen VPS account from
GrokThis.net and hosted my own MTA on alternative ports and now I have
no problems.

	They claim it's to stop spammers but a far better policy would be to
actually deal with the actual spammers and not blindly affect those that
just use mail servers with better reputations than theirs.
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Regards,
Jeremy

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